Bad bad DECstation

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sun Sep 30 23:20:13 2001

On October 1, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> OTOH, the main strength of the DECstation is that it's a graphical
> workstation. Running it through a terminal would mean losing the graphics,
> and running it then wouldn't make much sense (it might at home, but we've got
> enough machines without any proper uses at the UG anyway =).

  Uhh, what?

  No way.

  *A* strength of a DECstation is that it's a graphical workstation.
But it's certainly quite useful as a headless machine as well. I'm
not running any anymore, but as recently as a year ago I had a few
headless DECstations doing a great deal of real work.

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
Received on Sun Sep 30 2001 - 23:20:13 BST

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